The Round Hill Society

Planning

This section includes details about planning policy, issues and particular applications affecting the Round Hill area.

For older items, including information on the Hollingdean Waste Transfer facility, please see the planning archives section. Planning Committee Page
reports, Minutes, list of applications to be discussed.

Planning Committee Meeting Dates

Applications to be discussed at Committee

Webcast of Planning Committee Meeting

Minutes of Planning Committee

Planning Committee Members
Best to lobby them one week before relevant meeting. They can read representations, but they are not allowed to take sides or express a view in advance of the relevant meeting.

Contact details of Planning Committee Members

Freedom of information requests
Valid grounds for comments The Council can only take certain matters into account when considering your comments (objections / support / observations) on a planning application. Click here for a list of valid grounds for comment and grounds which will NOT be counted as valid.

Late comments on Carelet & Richmond House There is still time to make late comments on both Carelet's 6 three-storey house proposal and the 144 unit Richmond House proposal, but please do so before Friday noon 10th May 2013 in case these applications go to planning on the following Wednesday.

Richmond House proposal Click here for update and comment.
Application BH2013/00197 Richmond House, Richmond Rd Demolition of existing 2no storey building and
construction of
1no three storey building and
1no five storey building
providing 144 rooms of student accommodation, with associated ancillary space, 186 cycle spaces, removal of existing trees, landscaping and other associated works

What is happening with the Carelet application? Take this link to see a letter to the Council from Carelet on some of the factors complicating a decision on their latest proposal. One of these is whether perspective residents should be entitled to parking permits if permission were given for 6 three-storey houses. Carelet's application site cannot offer any space at all for car parking. It would be a poor precedent for a Council collecting revenue paid by existing residents to reduce parking stress to support an application which reverses the benefits of The Area J residents parking scheme. Other developers could be encouraged to put in similar proposals which would also depend on borrowed infrastructure. This outcome would not encourage residents (e.g. in Hanover or Elm Grove) to vote for a scheme to create safer streets and pavements while prioritising residents parking. Offering the gains immediately to developers could bring CPZs into disrepute and undermine confidence in any kind of scheme offered by the Council to solve the problem of too many motor vehicles. Carelet is still lobbying Council officers (AFTER the formal 3-week consultation period has passed) in an attempt to get a "recommendation to grant", which may influence to the decision taken by members of the planning committee on their 6 three-storey house application.

However, late comments from residents are accepted up until Friday noon before the relevant planning committee meeting, which cannot be until Wed. 15th May 2013 at the earliest.

Carelet argues that the CPZ will accommodate a demand for 9 extra spaces in the vicinity of their site

Please click here for resources which can be used to counter the developer's latest misrepresentations in relation to our parking difficulties.

Carelet required to base updated noise assessment on possible 7-day operation with extended hours at Hollingdean Depot

Carelet has also had to submit an updated noise assessment based on the "worst case scenario" of operation of The Waste Transfer Station (just 35 metres from the proposed homes) 7 days a week and during extended hours (finishing each day at 10pm instead of 7pm).

Round Hill Residents Parking Proposals On 30th April 2013, Brighton and Hove City Council's Transport committee gave the OK to the recommendation to extend the CPZ into Round Hill and London Road Station North. It was a closely contested outcome as The Chair of the Transport Committee had to use his casting vote.

London Road Station - a heritage asset click here or on picture below to read why! Permission to build extended until 2016
5 IN FAVOUR, 3 AGAINST, 4 ABSTENTIONS.
London Road Station open space to remain at risk

Anston House 15-storey proposal refused by one vote Planning application BH2012/02205 - Anston House 137 - 147 Preston Road Brighton, was turned down by a single vote at the planning committee meeting on 24th April. The Council's Conservation Advisory Group were critical of the design, agreeing with members of The Brighton Society that the proposed building was of a height which would badly overshadow some of the best parts of Preston Park (the Rose Garden and the Rotunda) making them miserable places to be for 6 months of the year. See The Brighton Society's calculations on overshadowing. See details of the decision on the Council's website.

Sainsbury application refused
D'Aubigny Road residents are spared further noise
Sainsbury application to double delivery yard activity at their Lewes Road branch on Sundays and Bank Holidays was refused on 5th October 2012.

The Council decided that the increase in the delivery hours and the increase in the number of delivery vehicles would have an unacceptable detrimental impact on the amenity of residents of nearby properties contrary to policies QD27 and SU10 of the issue decision notice.

Those affected live on the east side of D'Aubigny Road. Their rear gardens back onto the supermarket's busy delivery yard. They have been engaged in a long struggle to claim a little garden leisure-time uninterrupted by unreasonable amounts on Sundays and Bank Holidays.

Skate-park gets the go-ahead within the
northern section of The Level
Planning permission has now been granted for the state-of-the-art skate park in the new location (within the northern part of The Level).

The Plans List recorded 157 comments in support of the application and 70 against. Accordingly, 6 Committee Members supported the skate park application and 4 abstained. The city's Regency Society would have preferred the section of The Level north of the Rose Walk to remain an open space. Similar sentiments were expressed by Cllr Les Hamilton. However, The Brighton Society, keen to place the heritage assets of The Level in the section south of Rose Walk, supported the application, as did most of those who responded to a fairly wide-reaching public consultation. .

2 Ashdown Road Land for sale to the rear of recently converted house Having converted the existing dwelling to form 3 self contained flats, the developer is attempting to sell on his 06/10/10 permission (application number: BH2008/02170) to erect two new dwellings in place of the 11 garages built some time ago on the green vista bounded by Ashdown Rd & parts of Richmond Rd and Roundhill Crescent.

Though glad to see the garages go, many residents feel that "five dwellings where there was one (+ garages which should never have been permitted on one of Round Hill's best green vistas)" puts too much pressure on an already densely populated area.

Offers are invited "from £320,000" for both the land and full planning permission for two three bedroom detached eco homes of which one comes with a garage and the other with two off road parking spaces. The permission is due to run out on 6th October 2013, though look out before then for an attempt to extend it.

Green ribbon escapes new build
New build on greenway (to the west of the Cats Creep) refused

Have your say on planning the future!
Policies on housing targets, employment, transport and student housing: Comment on options for Brighton and Hove's proposed City Plan to replace the Local Development Framework.

Brighton and Hove City Council's website also has a Consultation Portal where you can Have Your Say on a number of planning issues. These include:

Ann Street / Providence Place Gardens survey
Brighton Station Gateway
Lewes Road Transport improvements
£6m to be invested on Lewes Road - the money, two thirds of which has resulted from a successful bid, will be used over four years to make transport infrastructure on this important corridor more eco-friendly, with the intention of relieving congestion and improving air quality.
Residents' Parking - which neighbourhoods will get it next? - Membership of the Area J residents' parking scheme from 27th September 2010 by Viaduct-Rise area residents has added to displacement in neighbouring areas. Two of these (1. from Springfield Road to Stanford Avenue 2. Round Hill) will be offered re-consultation on membership of the scheme in Autumn 2012.
£6m to be invested on Lewes Road - the money, two thirds of which has resulted from a successful bid, will be used over four years to make transport infrastructure on this important corridor more eco-friendly, with the intention of relieving congestion and improving air quality.
Traffic Surveys conducted by local residents
July 2010 Community Parking Survey in the Princes Road area
June 2010 Ditchling Rise Traffic Survey and Supporting Data
Cost of running petrol cars 2010
Without incorporating fuel costs the average car ( worth 12-16 k) appears to cost about £75 per week to keep on the road, all costs considered.
Cost of residents' parking permits
£108 per year (£2.30 per week). Your Council's plans to improve local transport : PDF: 5 pages.

The proposal to develop The Open Market between London Rd and Ditchling Rd and to construct the enabling residential development in Francis St has has now been agreed by Brighton and Hove City Council's Planning Committee. See report in The Argus.

SHOPS IN LONDON ROAD BRIGHTON full listing of (west side: 1 to 74) & (east side: 75 to 144) with links to their history (annotated photos from The James Gray Collection)..
Plans for The Level - review the Results of Consultation.
The majority of respondents felt that the skatepark should be NORTH of the rose walk.

Download a copy of the full Consultation Report PDF Format


Less recent
Conversion of Marcia's Haidressers to residential

The Victoria Pub has been tastefully converted into two town houses

5-storey residential development granted on the former Esso Petrol Filling Station Hollingdean Road

Hollingdean Road -Affordable does not mean Sustainable.

Ashdown Road proposal granted

Ashdown Road decision - Minutes of the Planning Committee Meeting.

Alcohol Licence granted to Malthurst Services Ltd at the BP Garage

TESCO pulls out of Lewes Road Community Garden site

A New Hand-rail has been installed at the junction (SE) of Ditchling Road and Princes Road

Round Hill Street Lamps Saga

The Council's Supplementary Planning Document on Architectural Features has now been adopted.

Stanmer Conservation Area Appraisal

Life near The Dump

Waste Advisory Group and Forum

Waste and Minerals Development Framework

More information on general planning concerns and associated issues: Garden Grabbing, Local Planning, Manual For Streets, Objection to Open Spaces Survey, Open Spaces, Open spaces criteria, Open Spaces Survey, Planning, Sustainable Building Design


This page was last updated by Ted on 01-May-2013